September 2017 newsletter

Milagro School Medicine Show
This year our annual Milagro Herb Medicine Show will be held on September 30th, from 10-3 pm at our new retail store location, 1500 Fifth Street, Santa Fe. The Herbal Medicine show highlights the academic achievements, new herbal skills (including products) made by students enrolled in our annual eight-month Milagro School of Herbal Medicine Certification Training which began last April. As the program winds down The Medicine Show is an opportunity for students to display the natural herbal products they have created as a result of being out in the field identifying and gathering herbs and in Milagro classrooms under the guidance of our highly qualified staff. Handmade creams, herbal teas, tinctures, herbal honey, salves, vinegars, and other unique student creations will be on display and for sale at the show. Milagro Herbs School director, Dr. Tomas Enos, will be on site creating a distillation from wild gathered pinion. Please join us for free herbal tea and an opportunity to learn about herbal medicine.

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September 2017 Newsletter View this email in your browser 1500 5th Street Unit #6, Santa Fe, NM (505) 820-6321 Medicine Circle Newsletter September 2017 Milagro School Medicine Show This year our annual Milagro Herb Medicine Show will be held on September 30th, from 10-3 pm at our new retail store location, 1500 Fifth Street, Santa Fe. The Herbal Medicine show highlights the academic achievements, new herbal skills (including products) made by students enrolled in our annual eight-month Milagro School of Herbal Medicine Certification Training which began last April. As the program winds down The Medicine Show is an opportunity for students to display the natural herbal products they have created as a result of being out in the field identifying and gathering herbs and in Milagro classrooms under the guidance of our highly qualified staff. Handmade creams, herbal teas, tinctures, herbal honey, salves, vinegars, and other unique student creations will be on display and for sale at the show. Milagro Herbs School director, Dr. Tomas Enos, will be on site creating a distillation from wild gathered pinion. Please join us for free herbal tea and an opportunity to learn about herbal medicine. Medicine Man: Medicine Tree (by Jane) A Medicine man or woman holds healing in their heart and mind and soul. You can sense their energy when they walk into a room. You can be healed just being near a medicine person. Their energy field overlaps with your own and your chakras begin to reverberate with new information. Sometimes, when a medicine person sets up an appointment with someone who needs help, the healing begins right then because the power animals and spirit guides connected to the medicine person, are now sharing energy with the client. That is strong medicine! Sitting next to a tree you absorb Tree medicine. Pine, Oak, Elm, Maple, Poplar, Willow all have different healing medicines. Do you know your Tree medicine ally? I know mine is pine, because I am filled with a sense of power and strength when I’m in a pine forest. Check it out for yourself when you are in the woods. Discover which tree strengthens your soul energy. Herbs, flowers, trees, plants, rivers, mountain, all have “medicine”. With the herbs we are familiar with, the “medicine” is clear. Osha fights viral and bacterial infections, willow heals headaches, yerba santa is drying and cooling, Echinacea fights flu and cold, skullcap calms the mind. The more you study herbs, the greater your knowledge of the thousands of plants and their corresponding “medicines”. When I was studying shamanism, I learned about power animal “medicine”. I found it very interesting that Bear, for instance, has access to wisdom and “medicine” available to the collective conscious of Bear. In other words, there is one overriding, major, Bear Medicine consciousness which is expressed by all Bear power animals (strength, nurturing, protection, healing). The archetype for Wolf, is leader, family, new paths, loyalty. Owl represents wisdom, mystery, and sometimes, a warning of an imminent  betrayal. Power animals are very powerful medicine. Flowers hold a high vibration and you feel this sitting in a field of wild flowers or even looking at images of lilacs or roses. Imagine for a few minutes holding a bouquet of lilacs and taking deep healing breaths and notice how even imagining flowers is medicine. Flower essences are a unique energy configuration of flowers, sun and water. The sun transfers the vibration of the flower into the water and it is preserved with alcohol or glycerin. Sunflower essence is about expansion, positive male energy, activation, healing the third chakra. All illness and dis-ease begin on a vibration level and that is where flower essences are the most effective. It is a miracle that healing “medicine” is everywhere. I’m filled with wonder when I contemplate the creator of this awesome plan for healing for humans. Look around you, even the clouds, the mountains, have medicine. All you need to do is connect. Intention is a major key. And come join us for our Medicine Show at Milagro Herbs on September 30th and find your own herbal medicine allies. Aho. Wild About CBD CBD oil, tincture, salve, cream, capsule and spray are attracting a lot of attention these days. Pain, stress, and sleep issues are the three primary problems people are addressing with CBD.  CBD is the non-THC aspect of marijuana and it is legal to sell in New Mexico. Here at Milagro Herbs we continue to increase our stock of CBD in response to the growing demand. Currently we have in stock: 125,150, and 400 mg CBD tinctures, 100 mg salve, 200 mg cream and 10 mg. capsules. Prices range from $29.95-$71.75. Speaking of flower essences... What is a flower essence?   A flower essence is the energetic vibration of flower stabilized in purified water and alcohol.    How are they made?  A flower is place in purified water and the flower/water combination is set in the sun for two to four hours or more. The energy of the sun transfers the energy (or otherwise known as the medicine) of the flower into the water. This is then preserved with alcohol (usually brandy) and bottled.   How do they help me?  Flowers hold a very high vibration.  They are a precious gift from Mother Earth, put here for our enjoyment and healing. When the energy of the flower enters into our energy field we begin to transform. The unique God/Goddess qualities of the flower emote their healing presence. This transference has the ability to uplift, cleanse, purify, raise, and heal our own life energy.   How do I choose?  Intuition is very important when choosing a flower essence. Decide which flower description is the most exciting to you? When you hold the bottle do you feel happy or excited? Hold in your mind a problem you would like resolved and ask your own spirit guides to direct your choice.   (We currently have a new line of Bethesda Star Flower Essences at Milagro)  Here Comes Fall and Winter... Stock your shelves with some of our best-selling winter remedies we now have on sale.  Cherry-Osha Cough Syrup, Osha Honey, Honeyed Osha, Super Lung Tonic, and Decongest Tea are currently ten percent off our regular price.   Foundation of Herbal Medicine Program for 2018 Herbal Certification Course Starts April, 2018. We are re-designing our upcoming Foundations of Herbal Medicine Program to include ongoing intensives and laboratory studies in medicine making, therapeutics, diagnostics, field botany, and more. Contact Tomas at 505-820-6321 for more information and applications or get more details at www.milagroschoolofherbalmedicine.com. Our focus has always been hands-on, practical, informative, bioregional, multicultural, and holistic. 250 hours of pure herb learning you take anywhere in the world. We need more herbalists and community health workers as our modern medical system continues to become unaffordable, erratic, and irresponsible. Become a herbalist, a skill you can use for a lifetime. Call us at 505-820-6321 or email us at [email protected] for the details including dates, times, and how to enroll. Herbal Intensives Practical Moxibustion Moxibustion is an ancient Chinese method of healing using Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) incense to warm specific sites on the body. It can be applied as a simple home remedy for family, friends, or self care to enhance health, prevent disease, or treat disease. Moxa tools and methods of application will be demonstrated for treating a range of common conditions such as muscular tension and respiratory complaints. Class limited to 8 people, Cost $20. Wednesday October 11th from 12 pm to 2 pm. Instructor - Janet Snowden, DOM Medicinal Barks - Identification, Harvesting, Uses (2 parts) Our forests are a storehouse of valuable medicine for everyday use. We will work with common tree barks in our area to concoct useful medicines. This class includes respect for and knowledge of the biology of tree barks, Cultural uses, sustainable harvesting, and medicine making. Class limited to 8 people, Cost $60 for both classes. Part 1 - Wednesday October 18th from 12 pm to 2 pm. Field trip to our local mountains for tree identification and bark collection. Part 2 - Wednesday October 25th from 12 pm to 2 pm. Processing and medicinal formulating with our bark collections. Instructor - Tomas Enos, PhD Ethnobotanist.  The Ethnobotanist Beat Trementina   Have you been to the forest to smell the air? It has changed. The sweet, earthy aroma of falling leaves and fresh humus in symphony with the sealing off of tree barks make for a sensual experience this time of year. As the leaves release their green chlorophyll to the air and metamorphose into red, yellow, and orange, it is our annual reminder how much we have in common with trees.   Bark also serves to photosynthesize sunlight during the Spring and Summer, while in the Fall it hardens and seals the outer “skin” for protection and immunity.   Place your nose into the undulating bark of a ponderosa pine. What do you smell? Vanilla? Butterscotch? Fresh baked bread? Where the bark has small holes or broken ranches is where you will see fresh resin, the golden liquid known in New Mexico as Trementina. This precious exudate serves to protect the tree against insects and further degradation of tbhe outer bark; without it the tree would die from exposure. Trementina has a long history of use in our region by desert dwellers of all cultural backgrounds. The medicinal value is outstanding against pulmonary infections and skin irritations. The resin can be boiled in water for hours into a tea or better yet, dissolved in an alcohol base and taken in drops to clear out lung congestion. Mountain people are notorious for chewing on a small piece of trementina to allay sore throats or swollen gums.       Perhaps most well known as a topical remedy, trementina is blended into an oil base and then applied to skin eruptions, rashes, and areas of hyper pigmentation. I have found it to be somewhat heroic in cases of non-contact dermatitis when all else has failed.  In addition, trementina is legendary when melted over a fireand applied to micaceous clay pots to water seal them and protect them from chipping. The resulting sheen is dramatic enough but then add in the sweet resinous aroma while cooking frijoles over a wood stove and the experience is out of this world.  This same material is the base for Propolis, the sticky material bees use to seal their hives from water, cold air, and insects. Trementina categorically is antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial. It enhances immunity and increases our ability to fight off infections of all kinds. When collecting trementina from our pine forests I look first around the base of the tree trunk for dried pieces that have fallen off the bark. I store the dried resin in a jar for future use; if you do melt it for any reason be sure to use a metal pot that is dedicated to that only, as it stays on hard after it dries.  Pinon Resin - Trementina de Pinon Contains terpenes and aromatics which make it solid on contact with the air and not soluble in water. It is initially sticky and then dries hard over time. May be exuded if the tree is damaged or under intense attack by an insect predator like the notorious pine bark beetle. Useful in tinctures and salves. Stable over a long time, no preservation needed. Collection is done primarily in the fall season when the sap "runs" to the surface after a monsoon season and with cooler air temperatures. Soluble in 100% ethanol.  The salve has a long history of application in the desert and mountains West, blended with animal lard or melted directly onto the skin. 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